The hype is building for Marvel's Dark Reign. I do respond to hype, not quite to an embarrassing degree but nearly (although I suppose that "at all" would be an embarrassing degree to respond to hype). Dark Reign doesn't really intrigue me much (and what is all this love for Norman Osborne) but I imagine I'll pick it up.
But wow, I'm getting tired. Sure, it all reflects the state of the Marvel Universe--they had the Civil War, and then the Skrulls attacked, and now there's Dark Reign (whatever that may turn out to be) and there's certainly a sense of one thing piling up on another, and of it couldn't get any worse and then it does, and of how the heroes haven't been able to take a rest in how long?
But you know? They're heroes. And they're fighting for their world.
We, on the other hand, are readers. And we don't have nearly that sort of incentive for wanting to keep up this exhausting pace. (And as many have said, it's not very meaningful to break with the status quo when there is no status quo.) We could just leave the universe if it all becomes too much.
I do try to keep that in mind.
Oh Marvel Comics, why can't I quit you?
1 comment:
Does EVERY giant cross-over/event have to immediately flow into ANOTHER giant cross-over/event? Secret Invasion took eight...nine months? It could have been told in three.
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